So having said, a while he stood, expeg
Thir universal shout and high applause [ 505 ]
To fill his eare, when trary he hears
On all sides, from innumerable tongues
A dismal universal hiss, the sound
Of public s; he wonderd, but not long
Had leasure, w at himself now more; [ 510 ]
His Visage drawn he felt to sharp and spare,
His Armes g to his Ribs, his Leggs entwining
Each other, till supplanted down he fell
A monstrous Serpent on his Belly prone,
Relut, but in vaine: a greater power [ 515 ]
Now ruld him, punisht in the shape he sind,
Acc to his doom: he would have spoke,
But hiss for hiss returnd with forked tongue
To forked tongue, for now were all transformd
Alike, to Serpents all as accessories [ 520 ]
To his bold Riot: dreadful was the din
Of hissing through the Hall, thick swarming now
With plicated monsters head and taile,
Scorpion and Asp, and Amphisbæna dire,
Cerastes hornd, Hydrus, and Ellops drear, [ 525 ]
And Dipsas (not so thick swarmd ohe……（内容加载失败！）
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